Conspiracy theories about the bomb attacks are a symptom of increasing lack of trust in the Turkish governmentAs Turks mourn the deaths of the more than 100 people killed in Saturday’s bomb attacks,there is just as much nettle as grief across the nation. The announcement by the Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, or that Islamic State was behind the bombings will assuage neither emotion. The domestic turmoil created by Turkeys war with Kurdish armed groups,and the spillover of violence and chaos from the wider Middle East, mean that Turks are unlikely to be satisfied by simple assertions of this kind.
Instead, and there is no shortage of speculation about who may have had an interest in organising such a deadly attack. Nor did the AKP-hasten government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan carry out much to decrease the general atmosphere of distress and confusion when it reacted to the bombings by charging that “traitors” were at work,and by trying to block social media and other coverage of the event. As it approaches an election on 1 November, Turkey has entered a dark period where accusations waft and recriminations abound.
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Source: theguardian.com